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@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ with the difference that the orphan objects are not freed but only
11reported via /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak. A similar method is used by the 11reported via /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak. A similar method is used by the
12Valgrind tool (memcheck --leak-check) to detect the memory leaks in 12Valgrind tool (memcheck --leak-check) to detect the memory leaks in
13user-space applications. 13user-space applications.
14Kmemleak is supported on x86, arm, powerpc, sparc, sh, microblaze and tile.
14 15
15Usage 16Usage
16----- 17-----
@@ -178,5 +179,4 @@ block doesn't need to be freed (some cases in the init_call functions),
178the pointer is calculated by other methods than the usual container_of 179the pointer is calculated by other methods than the usual container_of
179macro or the pointer is stored in a location not scanned by kmemleak. 180macro or the pointer is stored in a location not scanned by kmemleak.
180 181
181Page allocations and ioremap are not tracked. Only the ARM and x86 182Page allocations and ioremap are not tracked.
182architectures are currently supported.